INDIAN THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

ShodhGanga, India 
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers. A source for theses submitted to Indian universities, which includes Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry. The Archive is managed by the INFLIBNET, UGC.

Theses Database

Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. The Thesis database contains records of Ph.D thesis submitted to Indian University based on the notifications received from respective Universities. Union database of Theses covers the Metadata of Doctoral Theses submitted to 444 Universities/Institutes in India.

KrishiPrabha: Indian Agricultural Doctoral Dissertation Repository 
KrishiPrabha is a full-text electronic database of Indian Agricultural Doctoral Dissertations submitted by research scholars to the State/Deemed Agricultural Universities.

INTERNATIONAL THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

BDTD: Brazilian Digital Theses & Dissertations 
It is search tool for accessing ETDs produced in Brazilian universities and covers 2,00,000 lakh records from over 96 individual Institutions.

CiNii Dissertations (Japan) 
Portal for accessing doctoral dissertations awarded by Japanese Universities and the National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation.

Diss Online- German Universities 
Diss Online an EDT created & supported by Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) (German National Library)covering bibliographic records submitted to German universities.

Ethos: Electronic Theses Online Service (British Library. UK) 
A platform to access theses submitted by most of the UK higher education institutions. Ethos serves as an index to 300,000+ theses for free and order full text quickly and easily. Electronic Theses Online Service (Ethos) offers free access to the limited number of full text of theses.

Hong Kong Institutional Repositories 
Provides access to thesis submitted to universities in Hong Kong.

NARCIS-National Academic Research & Collaborations Information System-The Netherlands 
NARCIS is a gateway to scholarly information in Netherlands. It covers over 11,64,220 research publications and over 69,659 doctoral theses of the Netherland universities.

NZresearch.org.nz 
Provides access New Zealand’s most comprehensive selection of research papers and related resources. This site includes peer-reviewed and other research including theses from universities, polytechnics, and research institutions.

Ohio Link ETD Center 
This database provides access theses submitted to universities in Ohio State and others in USA.

RCAAP: Portugal 
This portal serves as a union catalog with digital contents from more than 30 institutions which includes theses and dissertations.

Theses Collection Wales 
The Theses Collection Wales includes approximately 50,000 theses and dissertations which have been presented for postgraduate degrees & PhDs in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Wales.

Theses.fr 
The theses.fr is the search engine of doctoral theses in France maintained by ABES. It contains over 66,000 theses.

Trove (National Library of Australia) 
Trove is a search portal provides searching, browsing, and access to digital documents, including ETDs produced in Australia. It provides access to over 106,665+ theses & dissertations submitted to Australian universities.

Cybertheses 
A portal developed jointly by the University of Chile, the Universities de Lyon, Montreal, and Alexandrie, and the University of Geneva for accessing full text ETDs from many countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Hong Kong, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the United States. It provides access to over 50,000 full texts ETD.

DART- Europe E-Theses Portal 
Portal provides access to doctoral theses awarded by European universities.  Over 4,25,000 theses open from 536 Universities in 27 European countries are accessible through this portal.

DiVA – Academic Archive On-line 
A resourceful portal which provides access to theses & dissertations and research publications written at over 30 universities from Nordic countries.

NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations 
Contains metadata & full text of more than one million electronic theses and dissertations contributed by 125+ member universities & consortia. To visit the Global ETD Search - http://search.ndltd.org/

OPEN ACCESS THESES AND DISSERTATION

PQDT OPEN: ProQuest Digital Theses 
Provides access to full text of theses submitted by the researcher himself under open access initiative with PQDT open.